Quotes about War
This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
— Livy
When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.
— Madeleine Albright
War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]
— Cicero
My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.
— Margaret Atwood
I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.
— Mark Vonnegut
Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.
— Michael Novak
The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.
— Will Rogers
For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.
— Steven Spielberg
There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.
— Steven Spielberg
No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.
— Theodore Roosevelt